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GLEANINGS AND OEIGINAL MEMOEANDA, 
capitula, and by the central florets being truly male, 
excellent botanical artist." 
The generic name is given in compliment to Dr. Schoen, an 
« This plant must be treated as a tender annual. Tts seed should be sown in sprmg, in a pot or pan of light soil. 
size 
frame 
larger pots, and, in order to have a greater show of flowers, four or five Diants ma 
ouse 
BoL Mag.^ t. 4560. 
It is remarkable tiiat an annual, of such beauty as this possesses, should not have become commonly known, after 
having been introduced at Kew for nearly five years. 
WallicL A noble terrestrial Orchid^ native of Nepal Flowers 
GIGANTEUM 
arm 
This 
J, 
warm 
themselves render the plant a noble object in the stove. The flowers add to this by their rich 
They appear at the end of a drooping scape about a foot and a half long, and covered with loosrsVairsToV^dsThTbase! 
lUich 13 of the size represented in the accompanying cut, but turned upside down. The sepals and petals are of a clear 
nch orange yellow ; whde the hp, which is bearded in the middle and at the edge, is richly mottled with cinnamon-brown 
Owmg to some error of observation, upon bad-dried specimens, we formerly reported the anther not to be articulated with 
^:j^rrr7' ^^.^^^-l^-^-^-V-nZ,^ »>«* the fresh specimens show that the st Jtu^e d"in ^ 
particular whatever from that of other eenuine rvmhiMo ^^iiitis m no 
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